"Aspiring librettists can study music-theater writing on the graduate level, but their work will draw overwhelmingly from the commercial and nonprofit theater, leaving unexamined the substantial differences that remain between the theater and the opera house".
After the 2010 elections, the Chamber and other business interests funneled millions of dollars into Republican redistricting efforts around the country, helping draw overwhelmingly safe Republican districts whose occupants — many among the most conservative House members — are now far less vulnerable to challenges from more moderate Republicans.
In Washington, Seattle, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, Landis was regularly drawing overwhelmingly supportive crowds of several hundred people.
The last assembly was drawn overwhelmingly from Islamist parties that had just performed well at the polls.
The comments, and Mr. Akin's subsequent explanation of them, drew overwhelmingly negative sentiment at social networking platforms, including on Mr. Akin's Facebook page.
The Taliban are drawn overwhelmingly from the Pashtun ethnic group, Afghanistan's largest, which is concentrated in the southern and eastern half of the country.
The 36 REF disciplinary subpanels that assess outputs rely entirely on in-house assessment, by panellists drawn overwhelmingly from British universities.
Although the meeting was called a Conference for Peace and National Unity, those who attended were drawn overwhelmingly from one ethnic group, the Pashtun, who claim to represent more than 50percentt of the 25 million Afghans.
But the skyrocketing test scores of the freshman classes at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other elite schools in the 1950s and 1960s were not accompanied by socioeconomic democratization...The student bodies of the elite colleges are still drawn overwhelmingly from the upper middle class.
And even if job interviews are opened up to people without a bachelor's degree, those with the best real credentials will still get the job, and they will be drawn overwhelmingly from the same people who get the jobs now.
When the elite is drawn overwhelmingly from multiply advantaged, segregated groups, their cognitive deficits hurt the disadvantaged, because elites constituted in this way lack awareness of and responsiveness to the problems and interests of the disadvantaged.But what about Mr Bloomberg's claim that schools like Stuyvesant are rightfully intended "for the best and the brightest"?
